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	  <h1>EU NUTS classification as Linked Data</h1>
	  
	  <h2>Introduction</h2>
	  <p>
	    The <a href="http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction">NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics)</a>
	    is a classification defined by the <a href="http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/">Eurostat</a> office of the European Union.
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	  <p>
	    This site contains the NUTS regions along with geographic information.
	    The data uses the <a href="http://geovocab.org/">NeoGeo RDF Vocabulary for GeoData</a>.
	  </p>

	  <h2>Dataset</h2>
	  <p>
	    The NUTS classification is a hierarchical system for dividing up the economic territory of the EU, mainly for statistical and policy purposes.
	  </p>

	  <ul>
	    <li><a href="id/nuts0">NUTS 0</a>: countries</li>
	    <li><a href="id/nuts1">NUTS 1</a>: major socio-economic regions</li>
	    <li><a href="id/nuts2">NUTS 2</a>: basic regions for the application of regional policies</li>
	    <li><a href="id/nuts3">NUTS 3</a>: as small regions for specific diagnoses</li>
	  </ul>

	  <p>
	    You can find a <a href="http://nuts.geovocab.org/id/index">full listing of the regions represented in RDF</a>.
	  </p>

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	    The current NUTS classification, valid from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2011, lists 97 regions at NUTS 1, 271 regions at NUTS 2 and 1303 regions at NUTS 3 level.
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	  <p>
	    There are <a href="data/">dataset dumps</a> available for download.
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	  <h2>Data Sources</h2>
	  <p>
	    The information sources used to create the NUTS dataset include:
	  </p>
	    
	  <ul>
	    <li>Eurostat (<a href="http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco_Geographical_information_maps/popups/references/administrative_units_statistical_units_1">shape files</a>)</li>
	    <li>Eionet</li>
	    <li>EuroGeographics</li>
	    <li>UN Food and Agriculture Organization</li>		
	  </ul>

	  <h2>Services</h2>

	  <p>
	    We also provide a growing set of <a href="http://openlids.org/">Linked Data Services (LIDS)</a>:
	  
	    <ul>
	      <li>
		  <b>withinRegion:</b> Returns the NUTS regions that include a certain point based on its latitude/longitude coordinates.<br/>
		  <i>Example: </i><a href="http://nuts.geovocab.org/services/withinRegion?lat=49&long=8.4#point">http://nuts.geovocab.org/services/withinRegion?lat=49&long=8.4#point</a>
	      </li>
	      <li>
		  <b>boundingBox:</b> Returns the NUTS regions that are contained within the specified bounding box.<br/>
		  <i>Example: </i><a href="http://nuts.geovocab.org/services/boundingBox?latA=48&longA=10&latB=50&longB=7#bbox">http://nuts.geovocab.org/services/boundingBox?latA=48&longA=10&latB=50&longB=7#bbox</a>
	      </li>

	    </ul>

	  </p>

	  <h2>News</h2>

	  <dl>
	    <dt>2011-09-19</dt>
	    <dd>New set of templates.</dd>
	    <dt>2011-07-24</dt>
	    <dd>Added <a href="void.rdf">VoID description</a> and dataset dumps.</dd>
	    <dt>2011-07-22</dt>
	    <dd>Added link to service, fixed Turtle syntax glitch.</dd>
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